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#FIRSTLOOK: “THE MADISON” CASTING ANNOUNCEMENTS – PATRICK J. ADAMS, ELLE CHAPMAN, BEAU GARRETT, ARMIAH MILLER
MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios today announced that Canadian Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Beau Garrett and Amiah Miller will join Michelle Pfeiffer in The Madison, the next installment of the Yellowstone universe from Academy Award® nominee Taylor Sheridan.
Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions, The Madison is a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.
Adams will play Russell McIntosh, a young investment banker who has followed the life path set before him from the start.
Chapman will play Paige McIntosh, a somewhat self-centered woman who indulges in a luxurious New York lifestyle provided by her parents and investment banker husband.
Garrett will play Abigail Reese, a resilient and sardonic New Yorker, who is a recently divorced mother of two.
Miller will play Bridgette, Abigail’s eldest daughter.
Adams is prominently known to audiences worldwide as Mike Ross in the hit drama Suits, which garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Most recently, Adams led the limited series Plan B and made his Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning revival of Take Me Out. He’s also a part of the upcoming series Lockerbie for BBC and Netflix. Additional credits include the critically acclaimed drama series Sneaky Pete, The Right Stuff, Luck, Orphan Black, Clara, Old School, and Rage. Adams is repped by CAA, The Rosenzweig Group and attorney Lev Ginsburg.
Chapman makes her television debut in Taylor Sheridan’s The Madison. She made her feature film debut in a scene opposite Tom Hanks in Marc Forster’s “A Man Called Otto” and just wrapped the indie “Florida Wild” alongside Lee Majors and Mira Sorvino. She is an alum of The Groundlings and Chapman University. She is repped by Alchemy Entertainment, Sovereign Talent Group and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher
Garrett is currently a series-regular on the hit Netflix series Firefly Lane. She previously appeared in The Good Doctor and now can be seen on Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce. She has also played recurring roles on Longmire and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. Additional credits include Tron: Legacy, Made of Honor and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Garrett is repped by LINK Entertainment, SDB Partners, and attorney Jason Hendler.
Miller most recently starred as co-lead in My Best Friend’s Exorcism and can next be seen in the horror thriller Hold Your Breath. She is best known for her lead role in the last installment of the Planet of the Apes franchise, War for the Planet of the Apes. Additional credits include The Water Man, Anastasia, Trafficked, Macgyver, Richie Rich and Henry Danger. Miller is repped by Entertainment 360 and CAA.
The Madison is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, David C. Glasser, John Linson, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Christina Voros, Michael Friedman, Michelle Pfeiffer and Keith Cox.
#FIRSTLOOK: MICHELLE PFEIFFER TO STAR IN “THE MADISON” ON PARAMOUNT+
MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios today announced that Oscar® nominee Michelle Pfeiffer will executive produce and star in THE MADISON (previously announced as 2024), a new original series from Academy Award® nominee Taylor Sheridan.
Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions, THE MADISON is the next installment from the YELLOWSTONE universe.
The series is a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.
“Michelle Pfeiffer is a remarkable talent who imbues every role with emotional depth, authenticity and grace,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO, Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios. “She is the perfect anchor to the newest chapter of the Yellowstone universe, THE MADISON, from the brilliant mind of Taylor Sheridan.”
Three-time Academy Award® nominee, Golden Globe Award winner, and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer has captivated film audiences with her compelling performances for over three decades. The celebrated actress first came to prominence in the cult classic Scarface. Pfeiffer recently starred as Betty Ford in the SHOWTIME anthology series, The First Lady, and can next be seen on Oh. What. Fun! for Amazon. Additional credits for Pfeiffer include French Exit, Maleficent 2, The Wizard of Lies, Mother!, Dark Shadows, Hairspray, Stardust, White Oleander, What Lies Beneath, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Deep End of the Ocean, One Fine Day, Up Close & Personal, Dangerous Minds, Wolf, Batman Returns, The Witches of Eastwick and Ladyhawke. Pfeiffer has also been honored with a BAFTA Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, National Board of Review Best Actress Award and New York Film Critics Circle Award.
THE MADISON is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, David C. Glasser, John Linson , Art Linson, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Christina Voros, Michael Friedman, Michelle Pfeiffer and Keith Cox.
Pfeiffer is represented by CAA, Entertainment360 and Hirsch, Wallerstein, Hayum, Matlof & Fishman and WKPR.
About Paramount+
Paramount+ is a global digital subscription video streaming service from Paramount that features a mountain of premium entertainment for audiences of all ages. Internationally, the streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME®, BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel™, in addition to a robust offering of premier local content. The service is currently live in Australia, Austria, Canada, the Caribbean, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latin America, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S.
ABOUT SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks
SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks is a global network of media assets that reaches over one billion people in more than 180 countries featuring some of the most iconic brands in entertainment including SHOWTIME, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Network among others – and, its Studios arm which produces 120+ series annually, including some of today’s biggest hits such as Yellowstone, Yellowjackets, Emily in Paris, 1883, 1923, George & Tammy, South Park, Tulsa King, Love & Hip Hop, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Challenge and Jersey Shore, to name a few.
ABOUT 101 STUDIOS
101 Studios is a global entertainment company dedicated to the acquisition, financing, development, production and distribution of high-caliber, creator-driven content. With an unmatched television slate partnered with outstanding filmmakers and talent, 101 Studios productions include the award-winning series YELLOWSTONE, GEORGE & TAMMY, 1883 and 1923. We also produce some of the most critically acclaimed shows, such as LAWMEN: BASS REEVES, MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, TULSA KING and LIONESS. Upcoming projects include LANDMAN, starring Billy Bob Thornton.
Building upon this success, 101 Studios’ Unscripted Division works with talented storytellers in bringing their vision to life. Some of these projects include Amazon Prime documentary “Kickback” which is an expose on the corruption inside the largest sport’s organization in the world: FIFA; “The Last Cowboy” a documentary on the high stakes world of professional horse reining and the upcoming HBO docuseries about the sexual abuse and cover-up at Ohio State University, co-produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures. On the scripted film side, past releases include the Sundance Audience award winner “Burden,” as well as the family comedy “The War With Grandpa”, the historical drama “The Current War: Director’s Cut,” and FINESTKIND. 101 Studios advocates for first-class collaboration and innovation. As an example we are partnered with iHeartRadio and Sports Illustrated Studios on the Ambie nominated podcast “Choosing Sides: F1”. 101 Studios also produces high-profile sports content under its own label, 101 Sports. Additionally, 101 Studios’ Brand Division increases the exposure for the properties of our partners to millions across the world.
#INTERVIEW: “ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA”
We’re about to enter Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the release of ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA takes us into the Quantum Realm! With themes of family, vulnerability, this just might be the most relatable installment in the MCU yet.
Secrets are uncovered and those surrounding Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) are forced to confront the truth. Peyton Reed directs, while Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard produce.
Paul Rudd- Scott Lang
Evangeline Lilly – Hope Van Dyne
Jonathan Majors – Kang the Conqueror
Kathryn Newton – Cassie Lang
Michelle Pfeiffer – Janet Van Dyne
Michael Douglas – Hank Pym
Peyton Reed – Director
Kevin Feige – Producer
Stephen Broussand – Producer
Jeff Loveness – Writer
Director Peyton Reed is asked what the signature is for these Ant-Man movies.
Reed: “The Ant-man movies have always been about family. It’s a generational story about a family of heroes. Scott Lang is getting sucked-into this world and Hope Van Dyne who is the legacied daughter of superheroes. It’s this generational thing. So young Cassie Lang is probably Scott‘s biggest motivational factor. Time with is daughter – he wants to be a the hero obviously, but it’s really about work-life balance and finding time with his daughter. We continue story of this family. We broaden that story and start to talk about the secrets that family members keep from each other. From the beginning we find out maybe Janet hasn’t told the family about her 30 years in the Quantum Realm, maybe Hope and Hank haven’t told Scott what they’re working on with Cassie in the basement and Cassie hasn’t told her dad about her time spent in jail. Everyone keep secrets from Scott at the beginning of the Movie and suddently we’re thrurst into Quantum Realm and have to face this.”.
Paul Rudd talks about reprising this fan-favourite role.
Rudd: “I think that he really does want to be a dad and I think that’s his main focus, so he’s always had a love-hate relationship with it, I think. I feel he’s now accepted it and he’s happy most of it is in the rear-view mirror and now we can have normal life and spend time together. Doesn’t last as long as he thought that it would. He’s grown a lot over the course of the movies in nine years. He’s just a regular guy, regular job, brought into group with no innate super abilities but went up and fought Thanos. He’s experienced a thing or two and he’s accepted who he is.”.
“I wouldn’t say is taking a victory lap others but others might say that, he’s written a book – a bit of Memoir and explaining everything going on in life and his experience with Avengers. He’s ready to have some time and be a normal dad. There’s some issues there as we missed out on a lot and I want to recapture some of those years. Cassie is older and has ideas of her own. We’re trying to grapple with all of that.”.
Evangeline Lilly talks to what Hope Van Dyne is up to.
Lilly: “Hope started the first Ant-Man film a very cold, detached isolaled woman. She didn’t have a lot of relationships in her life, a lot of broken relationships . Over course of three films, I’ve had this incredible arc to be able to play where she has in that time, repaired her relationship with her father, reuinted with her long-lost mother and fallen in love with Scott and she’s become a stepmom to Cassie. Life is full of love. She’s a blossomed version of the woman we met. She’s thriving, taking that love and trying to do right in the world and fix massive issues and she’s doing it with success. Then there’s this missing piece where she’d always fantasized about her mother coming home one day when she was eight years old. And she really keeps hope on the outside. And that’s a wound that’s festering at the beginning of the Film.
Kevin Feige is asked what the Quantum Realm is:
Feige: “We first saw it in first Ant-Man film. This was an idea Paul had early on, ‘What if we explore this idea of Quantum Mechanics’?. Things act very different at a quantum level and Paul was talking about all the storytelling and the imagination you can have there. The first film is the origins story and at the end of it, we got a taste of it. That led to where we took it in Endgame. It’s a place at the subatomic level where space and time act differently. It allows us to time travel and have this entire manic quantumness in this Film which Janet had only seen before. There is an entire universe below surface where we meet fun, crazy characters.”.
Michael Douglas is asked about what draws audiences to the Ant-Man films.
Douglas: “I think the Ant-Man pictures refer to family a lot. There’s a certain vulnerability and a sense of humour that exists which is a pleasure. This is really joyful as i’m learning more about experience than I’ve known. There’s a fun element which seems to relate to all different ages. Someone like me, who’s mostly referenced to R-rated movies, this has been a pleasure having younger kids coming-up and enjoying it.”.
Michelle Pfeiffer talks about Janet Van Dyne‘s secrets and choices.
Pfeiffer: “After being reuinted with my husband Hank and daughter Hope after being rescued after 30 years in the Quantum Realm, she’s savouring this time together. She’s been decidedly so secretive about her time down there and not wanting to get into that until of course, we all find ourselves down in the parallel universe and world. She’s forced to come forth with the truth in a place where she’d hoped she’d never seee again. 30 years is a long time and people have needs, let’s not be judgmental. There’s lot of suprises for the family, for some more than others. Some choices are questionable. But they’re a very forgiving family. Her story is very much a part of the whole family secrets theme that runs through the Film.
Jonathan Majors talks about his villain Kang the Conqueror.
Majors: “Who’s Kang? That’s a question we will all be answering for a very long time. Quick answer, he’s a time-travelling super-villain who’s also a nexus being. There’s multple versions of Kang. They occupy different universes, mutli-verses and have different intentions. All different beings. There’s a through-line between them and that’s the Kang gene. In a nutshell, that’s all I got. Kang the Conqueror is stuck in the Quantum Realm and he has some issues with some variants he’s not about it. When he’s down there, he met Janet.”.
Kathryn Newton has dreamed of playing a superhero and gets her wish in ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA.
Newton: “Last night at the premiere, someone asked me what the first Marvel movie was that I saw. Iron-Man is what I said and that was the first one. I was eight. Since the first time I saw a Marvel movie, I wanted to be a superhero. That was my superlative in the yearbook. I really wanted to be a part of this. I went to the movies with my dad and really wanted to be a superhero. I told myself I wanted to be the biggest superhero of all time and it’s ironic Cassie grows 40 feet, which is proof dreams do come true.”.
Producer Stephen Broussand talks about the Freedom Fighters.
Broussand: ‘When we arrive in Quantum Realm, we get thrust into a battle because Kang the Conqueror has risen to power. We meet Freedom Fighters at the tip of the sphere fighting back. It was fun introducing new characters. We meet their leader Jentorra (Katie O’Brian), Quaz (William Jackson Harper) and David Dastmalchian playing the Alien, Veb. They’re serious about defending territory and pushing back against everything they find themselves in. People are really going to enjoy meeting them.”.
Marvel Studios Canada release ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA in theatres February 17, 2023.
#GIVEAWAY: ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OF “FRENCH EXIT”
Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will want to give Readers across Canada a chance to win a free Digital Download of Golden Globe Award-nominated FRENCH EXIT. Witness Michelle Pfeiffer‘s Canadian Screen Award-winning performance.
Synopsis:
An aging Manhattan socialite (Michelle Pfeiffer) living on what’s barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son (Lucas Hedges) and cat.
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Elevation Pictures release FRENCH EXIT digitally and on-demand June 15, 2021.
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Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will want to give Readers across Canada a chance to attend a Virtual Screening of Golden Globe Award-nominated FRENCH EXIT on March 31, 2021 at 8 PM. You will have 24 hours to watch the Film.
Synopsis:
An aging Manhattan socialite (Michelle Pfeiffer) living on what’s barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son (Lucas Hedges) and cat.
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Elevation Pictures release FRENCH EXIT in select theatres Friday, April 2, 2021.
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#FIRSTLOOK: “FRENCH EXIT” TRAILER
Fresh off a Premiere at the New York Film Festival comes FRENCH EXIT starring Michelle Pfeiffer in a career-defining performance.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
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FRENCH EXIT arrives in theatres February 2021 via Elevation Pictures.
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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN ADVANCE PASSES TO SEE “DISNEY’S MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL”
Walt Disney Studios Canada x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win Advance Passes to see Disney’s MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL as follows:
Toronto: October 16th, 7pm, at Yonge + Dundas Theatre
Vancouver is: Oct. 16th at 7pm, Scotiabank Vancouver
Montreal: Oct.16th at 7pm, English – Forum, French – Starcite Montreal
Calgary: Oct 16th at 7pm, Scotiabank Chinook
Edmonton: Oct 16th at 7pm, South Edmonton Theatre
Synopsis:
The years have been kind to Maleficent and Aurora. Their relationship, born of heartbreak, revenge and ultimately love, has flourished. Yet the hatred between man and the fairies still exists. Aurora’s impending marriage to Prince Phillip is cause for celebration in the kingdom of Ulstead and the neighboring Moors, as the wedding serves to unite the two worlds. When an unexpected encounter introduces a powerful new alliance, Maleficent and Aurora are pulled apart to opposing sides in a Great War, testing their loyalties and causing them to question whether they can truly be family.
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Disney’s MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL is in theatres, Thursday, October 17, 2019.
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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN RUN-OF-ENGAGEMENT PASSES TO SEE “mother!”
Everyone’s talking about intriguing TIFF ’17 selection mother!, the latest from Black Swan Director Darren Aronofsky, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem. We want to give Readers a chance to win Run-of-Engagement Passes in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.
Synopsis:
A couple’s relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. From filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream), mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer in this riveting psychological thriller about love, devotion and sacrifice.
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Paramount Pictures Canada release #motherMovie Friday, September 15, 2017.
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